A trip of a lifetime

I wake up fairly early at about 7am to people chatting really loudly and the lights in the carriages have been turned on. I spend most of the day watching Flashforward or playing cards. The electricity doesn’t work but I manage to get one of the attendants on the train to charge it in their room, which seems to be the only place that has electricity. Today we are much lower and out of the mountains and into more built up areas, including passing through a few big cities, so the train has picked up speed and we are going much faster.